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dr. qousqous tsziar 🇨🇦

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parallel parking enthusiast, conscientious degenerate, MSG advocate, counterfeit consciousness. it is your responsibility to keep the moon safe. i find ftairs

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dr. qousqous tsziar 🇨🇦 @qousqous.bsky.social · 7h
The XCX in Charli XCX is pronounced “ninety-ten”, right?
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Patrick Meighan @patsweetpat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My former mayor once told me: “people hate all the problems in this town. The only thing they hate more are the solutions to those problems.”
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a tough election for pro-housing voters—we don't even have 10 good council candidates, let alone a solid mayor choice. But here's what I can say: please do NOT vote for Stephanie Smith (Green). She consistently opposes the pro-housing movement and will only set the city back.
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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 02/10/2026
What happens inside the heat exchanger box? Nobody knows exactly, our scientists' best guess is "portals."
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dr. qousqous tsziar 🇨🇦 @qousqous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think you’re jealous that the devil made eye contact with me
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New piece on the Last Ditch bar shenanigans and how it's remarkable that some people are still misattributing COVID-19 risk. gidmk.substack.com/p/the-last-d...
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The Last Ditch Mask Fight: What Are The Risks of COVID-19 in 2026?
A discussion that we’re still somehow having
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OneCity Vancouver @onecityvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🏘️Small Lots & Strong Blocks OneCity is the only party who will fix and finish the Vancouver Plan: 4 Floors & Corner Stores everywhere, 6 Floors & Services near thoroughfares Legalize 25 ft. lots, 5 ft. setbacks, and courtyards Single-Stair everywhere for more house, cheaper, on smaller lots
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OneCity Vancouver @onecityvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do you live in Vancouver, do you want a home of your own? What about just the dignity of renting without the fear of eviction? OneCity has a team and a plan for that, The Way Home & Housing for All www.onecityvancouver.ca/news/housing... #VanPoli
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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Since mask discourse is trending again, I thought I'd re-up this. Respirators remain a vital tool for people who need extra protection from respiratory viruses. Masks work! But there are good scientific reasons why population masking as an intervention was a good idea in 2020, but not in 2026.
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com · 22/09/2026
Why I implore people to pay attention to school board elections and VOTE in them. Even if you don't have kids.
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I urge everyone to vote OneCity across the board, but especially for School Board. No other party has put forward a slate this experienced. VSB schools have seen brutal cuts in services and an apalling lack of open engagement at the board level. Schools, teachers and our kids deserve better.
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Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com · 16/09/2026
The easiest vote you can make is for @lucymaloney.bsky.social and @onecityvan.bsky.social
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Iona Bonamis | 陶思穎 (she/her) @ionabonamis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It shouldn't require a lawyer to run for office with your given name. We're fighting for the right to use my given Chinese name 陶思穎 on the ballot. If you agree that candidates should be able to use their given names on the ballot, donate to my campaign so I can fight for fairer representation.
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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This week's update shows that all the early indicators for Covid-19 (positivity, ED visits, and wastewater RNA concentration) have peaked in the US. Positivity peaked 53% lower than summer 2025 ED visits peaked 62% lower than summer 2025 Wastewater RNA peaked 67% lower than summer 2025 More later!
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think it's cool that all political parties like to go "I DON'T TRUST THE PUBLIC FACTS" when it's convenient to their narrative. We have reams of data from government and private sources, along with endless anecdotes of people negotiating down their rent over the last two years. but whatever man
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This is, of course, an oversimplification and an unfair generalization, but... everyone has lost their minds.
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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 08/09/2026
William Azaroff announced today that he's ending his campaign for mayor. I'm disappointed, but I'm still super energized by the chance to stack Vancouver's leadership with OneCity's progressive, pro-housing councillors like superstar Lucy Maloney.
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 07/09/2026
TODAY is the last day to tell the city you want to see Granville stay open for people and closed to traffic! Make sure to fill out the survey, every positive response builds a stronger case for vibrant car-free streets in Vancouver.
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dr. qousqous tsziar 🇨🇦 @qousqous.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Both OneCity and COPE have been announcing some really excellent policies and plans for this election. The parties have their differences but I really hope they can work together on things like this (and that Sim and ABC are sent packing, ofc)
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Jessica Gutteridge aka Hotsy Flashy @gateau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is the plan I’ve been waiting to see. This is what we need to keep art and culture thriving in Vancouver, and I say this both as the managing director of a 45-year old established theatre company and venue, and as a burlesque performer on the independent cabaret scene
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dr. qousqous tsziar 🇨🇦 @qousqous.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
oh no, i made an imagination mistake
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SpaceTessContinuum @eigenvalue.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Some of the discourse on USAID has reminded me of this.
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There is a Jewish story about a wealthy man who came to his rabbi and said "I have decided to build an orphanage, can you put me in touch with the relevant people?"

The rabbi was delighted to do it, and introduced the man to some charities. After a few weeks, the man came back to the rabbi.

"I have decided not to build the orphanage," he said. "I realised that I was only doing it because I wanted to be admired as a philanthropist, my motives were selfish."

The rabbi answered, "do you think the orphans will care what your motives were? Build the orphanage!"
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It was lovely to work on this article with @meghansmiller.bsky.social and @ahusker.bsky.social. Hopefully it will help answer some of the ongoing questions about the recent destructive earthquakes. theconversation.com/are-earthqua...
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Are earthquakes becoming more common? Here’s what the numbers say
Scientists have been able to catalogue the largest earthquakes for a very long time.
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North Shore News @northshorenews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Vancouver's weekend storm was the biggest lightning event recorded in the city
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Vancouver's weekend storm was the biggest lightning event recorded in the city
There were between 1,700 and 1,800 lightning strikes within 50 km of Vancouver.
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Where we’re at:
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Moderate Canadian position
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Sam 🦋 @samnock.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
funniest pro-AI argument I've seen is someone being like "if you're so anti-AI if ChatGPT, Claude, etc. disappeared suddenly what would you do?" like babes, literally nothing. the biggest change in my life would be an immense relief.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
See NYT asked me for an op-ed on the Colorado River water issue. So that's what I told them. And the editors panicked & cancelled the piece. In case we're wondering why "nobody can figure out how to solve this difficult issue." We absolutely can, a lot of our professional talkers are just cowards.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Like, a lot of us right now have a prior assumption that "AI is driving water shortages." And no, it absolutely tf is not. It's agriculture. It's always been agriculture. Most of us have spent our whole lives not seeing it. We need to stop that ag water blindness before it screws us all over.
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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is a really good framing for trying to force developers to build/fund infrastructure.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism
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Lucy Jones @drlucyjones.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Humans respond to danger by searching for patterns to find how to be safe. We find patterns in random distributions b/c it makes us feel safer. Feeling out of control increases illusory pattern perception. Earthquakes make most of us feel we lack control. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception
We present six experiments that tested whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception, which we define as the identification of a coherent and meaningful interrelationship among a set of random or unrelated stimuli. Participants who lacked ...
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Lucy Jones @drlucyjones.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Outside of local triggering (eg., aftershocks), the global distribution of big earthquakes is random in time. That means there is an average rate (15 M7+ evets/yr) but the time since the last event doesn't matter. Sometimes we see clusters - if there were no clusters, it woldn't be random.
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dr. qousqous tsziar 🇨🇦 @qousqous.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
you can’t see anything if you don’t have owls
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Unknown Lombard artist, Cats Singing, Directed by an Owl, c. 1700 (formerly Sotheby's)
A cat orchestra directed by an owl, with sheet music made of little drawings of mice, cats playing instruments, a demon plays a horn with his butt, as well as some other nonsense
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“you can’t have fun because it makes you not want to have a revolution” congrats, a leftist just described concisely why their political project is doomed to failure
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dr. qousqous tsziar 🇨🇦 @qousqous.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
autonomous walking tent
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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
There’s one good councillor in Vancouver for housing.
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LBP @ldbp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So disappointed in everyone but Lucy Maloney. No one is working to make this city better or more productive. They are working to preserve something that is in the past because they are incapable of accepting that change can happen and not be a bad thing. I hate here sometimes
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
far and away I think the single most consequential failures of the 20th/21st century environmental movement was going anti-nuclear. to a great extent we literally chose climate change.
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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Interesting that ABC has decided that killing off future missing-middle homes is an ideal fundraising pitch
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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Not building housing makes it unaffordable, so we block building more of it on the grounds that whatever we build won't be affordable anyways.
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dr. qousqous tsziar 🇨🇦 @qousqous.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What we’re living with now are the consequences of fettered growth, and I think it’s clear that they are worse
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Just to cap this off, Fry and Orr can't even bring themselves to vote on the single stair part of the report:
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Vancouver Villages plan was defeated. This is a huge blow to housing policy in the city. This was the easiest part of the Vancouver Plan to implement; Ken Sim directed staff to prioritize it. If we can't pass this, what's the point of any of it? All housing policy work here is in limbo.
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dr. qousqous tsziar 🇨🇦 @qousqous.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Screen shot from twitter: from user @qousqous, dated March 11 2023: Keep Vancouver Saturn Devouring His Son
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Bligh: "sometimes we need to slow down to speed up" Do any of these councilors believe we're in a housing crisis? This has been in the works since 2018. 2018!!! It has been staff's top priority for like 3 years! What a sad joke. Our leadership is totally failing us.
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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The US CDC has released provisional mortality totals for 2025. Pandemic excess mortality appears to now be significantly *negative* in the US. 1/
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dr. qousqous tsziar 🇨🇦 @qousqous.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
look at the sky if it’s there
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